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He did the smart thing by creating hundreds of exotic, alien species, some so large they would dwarf an elephant, some so small they appear only as the incessant buzzing of a house-fly.
REVIEW: Avatar « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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It's a place for someone to note the significance of the house-fly in the still life.
Adam Hanft: Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life 2009
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No. 1 is the insect somewhat smaller than life, from the specimen having contracted in drying; they are a little larger than the common house-fly.
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It is not much larger than the common house-fly, and is nearly of the same brown color as the common honey-bee; the after part of the body has three or four yellow bars across it; the wings project beyond this part considerably, and it is remarkably alert, avoiding most dexterously all attempts to capture it with the hand at common temperatures; in the cool of the mornings and evenings it is less agile.
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It is a brown insect about as large as our common house-fly, with three or four yellow bars across its hinder part.
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The English house-fly soon drives them away, and, after the first year or two, a station is seldom much troubled with them: so at least I am told by many.
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Besides these, there is a fly, as harmless in appearance as our house-fly, which bites as badly as a mosquito.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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Men are not all cowards like the rabbit, nor all brave like the house-fly, nor all sweet and innocent and gentle like the lamb, nor all murderous like the spider and the tiger and the wasp, nor all thieves like the fox and the bluejay, nor all vain like the peacock, nor all frisky like the monkey.
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Think of a God of mercy who would create the typhus germ, or the house-fly, or the centipede, or the rattlesnake, yet these are all His handiwork.
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Quantities of the common house-fly about — and, during the early part of the morning, it rains in a gentle kind of way; but soon after we are afloat in our canoe it turns into a soft white mist.
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